Certainly when Brooder says: ‘Smart men don’t get married’, everyone who knows me is thinking of me. “Most characters I write have some attributes in common with me, and some attributes that are not. “I put bits of myself all over the place,” he says. It may not be autobiographical, but there’s a lot of Zahler in Bone Tomahawk. But thanks to Zahler’s obsessive attention to period detail and the arid scenery of the Santa Monica Mountains, you feel like you’re out there with them, dragging yourself along in the heat. Eventually, after Sonnier paid for half of it himself, final funds came through from UK company The Fyzz Facility, and they were off, albeit stretched: they had a $1.8m budget – tiny, considering what needed to be filmed – and a tight 21 days. So Sonnier and Zahler stood their ground. “At the beginning, the first few years of it, it was pretty crushing. “Half of the A-list has come and gone on different pieces of mine, I’m not exaggerating,” says Zahler on the phone from New York. Another Zahler project called Robotech had Tobey Maguire attached to it then nothing again. Screenplay The Brigands Of Rattleborge, a story about bandits robbing a town in the middle of a thunderstorm got a lot of buzz in 2006: Spielberg wanted to make it then Oldboy’s Park Chan-wook was attached then nothing. Meanwhile, despite as many as 25 of his scripts being optioned by Hollywood, only one became a film, a small horror called Asylum Blackout. In the last decade, he has written 40 screenplays and numerous novels, four of which have been published. Raised in Miami, he left for New York to go to film school, and has been there ever since. The film is an audacious debut by 43-year-old director S Craig Zahler.
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